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you are going to continue your defamation case against eliot spitzer. >> yes. betty: where does that stand right now? >> it's in the courts. we're waiting for an opinion from the appellate court. betty: are you relieved this is pretty much behind you now? >> i thank relieved is not the term. i'm glad the truth is coming out. i feel sorry for thousands of people who lost their jobs. i'm sorry what happened to a.i.g. as a result of all that. i'm sorry for the loss to the country of a great asset. it's wrong. the barton act should be abolished. it's a disgrace. betty: again, former a.i.g. c.e.o. hank greenberg. yvonne, hank mentioned he feels like a.i.g. as shell after company now. it is not quite a shell. it is certainly much smaller than it was before but it used to be this big insurance giant with a huge presence as well in asia before it started selling off assets and offices around in japan and elsewhere. greenberg of course with close relationships with government officials and china and elsewhere had made a, had a big foot print but not so much anymore. yvo
you are going to continue your defamation case against eliot spitzer. >> yes. betty: where does that stand right now? >> it's in the courts. we're waiting for an opinion from the appellate court. betty: are you relieved this is pretty much behind you now? >> i thank relieved is not the term. i'm glad the truth is coming out. i feel sorry for thousands of people who lost their jobs. i'm sorry what happened to a.i.g. as a result of all that. i'm sorry for the loss to the country...
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scarlet: betty, this is a lawsuit that eliot spitzer brought on against hank greenberg way back when. betty: it led to the ouster of hank greenberg from aig. he voluntarily left, but he was threatened by spitzer, either you go or there will be criminal action taken against you. the $9 million, this was a $5.5 billion case when it first began. that is how much damage the new york state was looking to get out of hank greenberg and aig. is this a victory? in divorce court, there is never a winner on either side. but he is ever actually that happy. you heard the new york attorney general say this is a vindication for them, but at the same time, they came away with $9 million out of $6 billion. joe: greenberg seems to blame has ouster for the eventual downfall of aig, in the sense that would he have been there, they wouldn't have gotten downgraded and that wouldn't have triggered all the margin calls. the incident is massive. to this day, he says that if he had been there, he would have watched out for the financial products and would not have allowed aig to get into those trades. this is
scarlet: betty, this is a lawsuit that eliot spitzer brought on against hank greenberg way back when. betty: it led to the ouster of hank greenberg from aig. he voluntarily left, but he was threatened by spitzer, either you go or there will be criminal action taken against you. the $9 million, this was a $5.5 billion case when it first began. that is how much damage the new york state was looking to get out of hank greenberg and aig. is this a victory? in divorce court, there is never a winner...
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ready copy you are going to continue the defamation case against eliot spitzer. where does that stand? mr. greenberg: it is in the courts. we're waiting for the appellate court. betty: are you relieved that this is pretty much behind you now? mr. greenberg: relieved is not the term. it is i am glad the truth is coming out. i feel sorry for the thousands of people that lost their jobs. i am sorry about what happened to aig as a result of all that. i am sorry to the loss of the country to a great asset. it is a disgrace. betty: whitey you nothing more companies are behind you on trying to get -- why do you more companies are not behind you on trying to get rid of the war and act? -- greenberg: they do not betty: you weren't that the martin at makes it dangerous to do business in new york state, right? greenberg: absolutely. betty: why is it not resonating? mr. greenberg: it does in some parts. general the last two, i think the third one, wants to become governor. and that is wrong. betty: you think business is afraid? mr. greenberg: there should be a law that at th
ready copy you are going to continue the defamation case against eliot spitzer. where does that stand? mr. greenberg: it is in the courts. we're waiting for the appellate court. betty: are you relieved that this is pretty much behind you now? mr. greenberg: relieved is not the term. it is i am glad the truth is coming out. i feel sorry for the thousands of people that lost their jobs. i am sorry about what happened to aig as a result of all that. i am sorry to the loss of the country to a great...
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look at what happens just today, eliot abrams, eminently qualified to be the undersecretary of state, a man who really could have brought about peace in the middle east with his experience, he passes everybody's test. tillerson says yes, jared kushner says yes, even trump says yes, after meeting with him. and then he finds out that he wrote an article critical of him back in may, and he says, no, i'm going to overrule the secretary. it's hard to be critical of this president. and that's why anybody who accepted the role of white house counsel or mr. no in the white house would be doing it at the risk of his job. i'm very much worried that people are not going to stand up. look what happened to the office of legal counsel. they approved this horrible order without giving him the kind of criticism that office of legal counsel is supposed to do. i think people are afraid that if they give him the truth, he is not going to -- he's going to -- >> jeffrey, are people in his circle too afraid to confront him with something he may not want to hear? >> though, with i don't think so. and ana, t
look at what happens just today, eliot abrams, eminently qualified to be the undersecretary of state, a man who really could have brought about peace in the middle east with his experience, he passes everybody's test. tillerson says yes, jared kushner says yes, even trump says yes, after meeting with him. and then he finds out that he wrote an article critical of him back in may, and he says, no, i'm going to overrule the secretary. it's hard to be critical of this president. and that's why...
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you don't have members like that now but maxine waters and others like eliot engel saying he's not going to shake the president's hand as he goes down the aisle. do you think they should boycott? >> i don't think boycott. he is the president of the united states. you hope you can move him in the direction that helps everyday citizens. what they've seen so far has been alarming to them so you can understand because of the divisive actions and the districts that they represent why this would be alarming, but you have to try. only 40 days in to work with the president. however, they are going to hold his feet to the fire on these promises, on jobs. if he's going to represent the everyday person, why right out of the bag did he make it more difficult for everyday people to get mortgages. why right out of the bag you can't have financial advisers when making decisions. i know you've got to go. i'm just saying. >> quick final thought but it's got to be a sentence. >> we've seen the president come out of the gate killing job regulations, fixing our tax code and the way we're going to continue t
you don't have members like that now but maxine waters and others like eliot engel saying he's not going to shake the president's hand as he goes down the aisle. do you think they should boycott? >> i don't think boycott. he is the president of the united states. you hope you can move him in the direction that helps everyday citizens. what they've seen so far has been alarming to them so you can understand because of the divisive actions and the districts that they represent why this...
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. >> there you hear congressman eliot engel. we'll continue monitoring this news conference about russian sanctions and the constant contact between the trump campaign and russian officials. steny hoyer said meddling with american elections should not be being done by russians. that could have been said by democrats or republicans. >> that's right, the republican position for the most part was that barack obama and his administration were not tough on russia, not that they were being too tough on russia but not tough enough. and general the republican party has been much more hawkish on russia than a lot of democrats. so now it's this really interesting role reversal. certainly we're seeing from both parties some very tough talk on capitol hill. but again, what we really have to question and look at in terms of congress is what is republican leadership going to do about this? they can talk tough about russia but when it comes to applying pressure to the executive and to donald trump, that becomes a sticky political situation for
. >> there you hear congressman eliot engel. we'll continue monitoring this news conference about russian sanctions and the constant contact between the trump campaign and russian officials. steny hoyer said meddling with american elections should not be being done by russians. that could have been said by democrats or republicans. >> that's right, the republican position for the most part was that barack obama and his administration were not tough on russia, not that they were...
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i'm joined as you can tell by chairman eliot engel, ranking member of the foreign affairs committee and ranking member of the intelligence committee, mr. schiff. in addition, we are expecting mr. rooney and mr. kinzinger from illinois. they are both in committees. if they can get out, they'll be joining us. today, we're introducing a bipartisan legislation to ensure that russia does not receive any sanctions relief until it earns it. clearly, there has been some confusion as to exactly what is the status of sanctions that exists with reference to actions that russians have taken in ukraine and that they have taken with respect to hacking into american elections with the intent of having an impact on those elections. all of us were alarmed by russia's illegal occupation of crimea and its support for the armed insurgency in ukraine. along with russians' brazen interference in last year's u.s. election, which ought to be of concern and is of concern in a bipartisan fashion, these actions have earned putin and his cronies harsh sanctions. no foreign power, especially one so committed to thw
i'm joined as you can tell by chairman eliot engel, ranking member of the foreign affairs committee and ranking member of the intelligence committee, mr. schiff. in addition, we are expecting mr. rooney and mr. kinzinger from illinois. they are both in committees. if they can get out, they'll be joining us. today, we're introducing a bipartisan legislation to ensure that russia does not receive any sanctions relief until it earns it. clearly, there has been some confusion as to exactly what is...
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i'm joined as you can tell by chairman eliot engel, ranking member of the foreign affairs committee and ranking member of the intelligence committee, mr. schiff. in addition, we are expecting mr. rooney and mr. kinzinger from illinois. they are both in committees. if they can get out, they'll be joining us. today, we're introducing a bipartisan legislation to ensure that russia does not receive any sanctions relief until it earns it. clearly, there has been some confusion as to exactly what is the status of sanctions that exists with reference to actions that russians have taken in ukraine and that they have taken with respect to hacking into american elections with the intent of having an impact on those elections. all of us were alarmed by russia's illegal occupation of crimea and its support for the armed insurgency in ukraine. along with russians' brazen interference in last year's u.s. election, which ought to be of concern and is of concern in a bipartisan fashion, these actions have earned putin and his cronies harsh sanctions. no foreign power, especially one so committed to thw
i'm joined as you can tell by chairman eliot engel, ranking member of the foreign affairs committee and ranking member of the intelligence committee, mr. schiff. in addition, we are expecting mr. rooney and mr. kinzinger from illinois. they are both in committees. if they can get out, they'll be joining us. today, we're introducing a bipartisan legislation to ensure that russia does not receive any sanctions relief until it earns it. clearly, there has been some confusion as to exactly what is...
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engel: good afternoon, i'm eliot engel, ranking member of the house foreign affairs committee. thank you, madam leader, and thank you fellow ranking members. good afternoon. the national security council is at the top of our foreign policy decisionmaking apparatus. if the council's dysfunctional, if it's leadership is compromised, it puts our national security at risk. so it's a good thing that general flynn stepped down. but his departure raises more questions than it answers. what promises the general flynn make to putin's ambassador and who was involved? how deep are the connections between russia and president trump's campaign prior to the election? why did the white house ignore the warnings of the justice department and allow someone subject to putin's blackmail to remain in a critical national security role? this problem, therefore, is far from resolved. we need to pursue, punish, and protect. pursue the answers about russia's interference in our election and putin's ongoing ties to this administration. a thorough investigation by a nonpartisan commission. punish suppose
engel: good afternoon, i'm eliot engel, ranking member of the house foreign affairs committee. thank you, madam leader, and thank you fellow ranking members. good afternoon. the national security council is at the top of our foreign policy decisionmaking apparatus. if the council's dysfunctional, if it's leadership is compromised, it puts our national security at risk. so it's a good thing that general flynn stepped down. but his departure raises more questions than it answers. what promises...
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democrats on the foreign affairs committee, this is the statement put out yesterday from representative eliot engel. the general fund was in contact with russian officials during the campaign. president putin was working to tip the scales in president trump's favor. congress needs to take steps such as passing my secure our democracy act to punish those responsible. the house judiciary committee also in a tweet this morning attaching a letter they sent to house oversight. elijah cummings calling for a briefing concerning mr. flynn and being subject to russian blackmail. you can find this on twitter as well. judith in west virginia. go ahead. caller: i am a lifelong democrat. i did not vote one time for a republican. peoplet understand these that think donald trump is so innocent. the last lady that called said she was a lifelong democrat but voted for trump. these people are not that stupid. that they would put a man in innocent butts so lies constantly during the process to vote a president in. it doesn't make a lot of sense to me that people could be that naive and especially a lot of chris
democrats on the foreign affairs committee, this is the statement put out yesterday from representative eliot engel. the general fund was in contact with russian officials during the campaign. president putin was working to tip the scales in president trump's favor. congress needs to take steps such as passing my secure our democracy act to punish those responsible. the house judiciary committee also in a tweet this morning attaching a letter they sent to house oversight. elijah cummings...
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eliot slays the dragon of grand strategy. by pointing out that any sort of grand intellectual design or theory or blueprint or plan isn't going to survive very long in the real world. as someone who came with the word grand strategy in the title i think your critique of grand schemes is well taken but i think you may actually be critiquing a strawman version of grand strategy. if you believe the grand strategy is a step is to plan or something that can be a seamless coherence to policy then you are right. i would say and i think most people who are in favor of a grand strategy think of something a little bit different perhaps more modest and a very basic set of symbols and ideas and priorities that guide how you interact in a chaotic world and even how you adapt in the face of unforeseen events. it's a sense of what is the most important to me as a country. what are the things that most threaten that and a general sense how can i apply what resources i have to get the good stuff? i think if you take that as the definition you
eliot slays the dragon of grand strategy. by pointing out that any sort of grand intellectual design or theory or blueprint or plan isn't going to survive very long in the real world. as someone who came with the word grand strategy in the title i think your critique of grand schemes is well taken but i think you may actually be critiquing a strawman version of grand strategy. if you believe the grand strategy is a step is to plan or something that can be a seamless coherence to policy then you...
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company creating hundreds of thousands of jobs, then financial crisis happens your forced out because eliot spitzer is chasing you down your board felt they had to act, i wonder what would have happened to aig if you were running agi during the financial crisis. >> never would have had that problem never we used to beat on that issue, at least once a week. >> as a patriot, as guy started this enormous company, created all these jobs, and the guy, by the way, got the purple heart barons star fighting the world war ii the way you did korean war the way you did how are you feeling after 12 years being chased down. >> i feel, i feel terrible about that. i feel good that it is over. but -- i have -- that is not vindication not when he attorney general -- owes me apology putting out that release yesterday. >> you pabt apology from schneiderman. >> absolutely. >> the regulatory story you are a business guy all around the world here we are talking about bilaterally trade deals donald trump wants with folks like china, mexico, from a business standpoint, with operations all over the world, how do yo
company creating hundreds of thousands of jobs, then financial crisis happens your forced out because eliot spitzer is chasing you down your board felt they had to act, i wonder what would have happened to aig if you were running agi during the financial crisis. >> never would have had that problem never we used to beat on that issue, at least once a week. >> as a patriot, as guy started this enormous company, created all these jobs, and the guy, by the way, got the purple heart...
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let me give you one quote from the democratic representative eliot engel who issued a statement that says this. some acceptable during the transition general flynn discussed lifting sanctions with russia's ambassador. this action would be deeply troubling under any circumstances, either general flynn and lied to the administration or lied to the -- the administration lied to the american people. this is ward a full-blown investigation? >> i think this is vague and ambiguous enough this may be the kind of thing but some of the statements are sufficiently vague and sufficiently imprecise and what is being referred to etc.. i think congress may well end up having a hearing on it. eric: finally those of us in a certain age 1980, william casey. it was all over the place. casey had secret meetings with the iranians to make a deal with the men's duration to remove hostages when he was inaugurated and there were congressional investigations. there was no credible evidence of any of that. how do you think this will play out? >> well quite frequently malevolence is alleged and you find out tha
let me give you one quote from the democratic representative eliot engel who issued a statement that says this. some acceptable during the transition general flynn discussed lifting sanctions with russia's ambassador. this action would be deeply troubling under any circumstances, either general flynn and lied to the administration or lied to the -- the administration lied to the american people. this is ward a full-blown investigation? >> i think this is vague and ambiguous enough this...
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. >> joining me now, eliot cohen, former counselor at the state department under condoleezza rice. perhaps you can tell by that, a republican, a conservative, also a never trumper. mr. cohen, essential is it to have foreign policy pretend that the president's pronouncements don't exist or to have various members of his cabinet explicitly rebutting them all the time? >> well, it's not tenable. there are a number of problems. if people get used to the idea that you can't believe a word that he says, there are real consequences to that. the other problem that you've got, an awful lot of the effort now of his national security team, secretary mattis, secretary tillerson and so on, is devoted to cleaning up messes. and when you're cleaning up messes, you're not able to take the initiative of taking a wide range of issues that we're facing in the years ahead. >> you said this, which i keep thinking about this quote. i've been in this town for 26 years. i've never seen anything like this, referring to the president. i don't think this is a mentally healthy president. what did you mean by
. >> joining me now, eliot cohen, former counselor at the state department under condoleezza rice. perhaps you can tell by that, a republican, a conservative, also a never trumper. mr. cohen, essential is it to have foreign policy pretend that the president's pronouncements don't exist or to have various members of his cabinet explicitly rebutting them all the time? >> well, it's not tenable. there are a number of problems. if people get used to the idea that you can't believe a...
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ties with russia and congressman eliot engel calling for trump to fire flynn. what do you think will happen next? >> if you want to get flynn out of that job, the last thing to do is have my friends, congressman engle ask for that to happen. that will just make president trump resist ever more. what has to happen is, this investigation is going to happen. it's not just democrats. it's the american public and it's many, many republicans in congress who want to get to the bottom what russia is up to. they don't think it's up to good things and that's what we have a constitutional system for and the trump administration simply has to adjust to that. in the case of flynn, the president isn't going to fire him. the question is, will we see more things like this, that's what worries me because flynn has to deal with very, very powerful, very self-confident cabinet members and foreign dignitaries who will take him at his word and need to deal with him at a very, very confidential and intimate level. and thus it's very, very important that things go well with him, beca
ties with russia and congressman eliot engel calling for trump to fire flynn. what do you think will happen next? >> if you want to get flynn out of that job, the last thing to do is have my friends, congressman engle ask for that to happen. that will just make president trump resist ever more. what has to happen is, this investigation is going to happen. it's not just democrats. it's the american public and it's many, many republicans in congress who want to get to the bottom what russia...
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. >> eliot cohen, thank you for your time. appreciate it. >>> people take to the streets to protest the trump agenda but some republican lawmakers don't want to hear it, literally. they are avoiding their constituents. more on that after this quick break. ing. what do you mean? i just got this baby to get around the plant floor. right, but now ge technology monitors every machine. yeah, it brings massive amounts of information right to you. so you don't need that. well, it makes me look young and uh..."with it." time to move on. oh i'll move on... right into the future. ...backwards. you're going backwards. the future's all around us! not just on your little tablet, my friend. scalpel. i have no idea what i'm doing. i'm just a tv doctor. i never went to college. (scream) i don't do blood. but now, thanks to cigna, i can do more than just look the part. is that a foot? we are the tv doctors of america. and we're partnering with cigna to help save lives. by getting you to a real doctor for an annual check-up. so go, know, and ta
. >> eliot cohen, thank you for your time. appreciate it. >>> people take to the streets to protest the trump agenda but some republican lawmakers don't want to hear it, literally. they are avoiding their constituents. more on that after this quick break. ing. what do you mean? i just got this baby to get around the plant floor. right, but now ge technology monitors every machine. yeah, it brings massive amounts of information right to you. so you don't need that. well, it makes...
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. >> congressman eliot engel, democrat from new york, thank withdrew for staying around. also thank you to kasie hunt and peter alexander for breaking that news for us on andy puzder withdrawing his nomination news, we have a little bit of reaction out of the senate. here is a tweet, we're going to throw it up for you on the screen, from elizabeth warren on andy puzder. she says "reports say andy puzder is tired and may withdraw his u.s. dol nomination. if he can't stand the heat, he should get out of the kitchen." stay with us. your date with destiny has arrived. let's do this! new cinnamon frosted flakes are finally here. sweet cinnamon and the frosted crunch you love. well? tastes like victory t. tastes like victory. they're great! i didn't know how good ....until i lost my mom. that's why i want to share this story about life insurance. when mom died, we found an aarp term life insurance policy from new york life. we didn't know she had it. so i picked up the phone. the man who answered was so helpful. we received our benefits in no time. with all our expenses, that w
. >> congressman eliot engel, democrat from new york, thank withdrew for staying around. also thank you to kasie hunt and peter alexander for breaking that news for us on andy puzder withdrawing his nomination news, we have a little bit of reaction out of the senate. here is a tweet, we're going to throw it up for you on the screen, from elizabeth warren on andy puzder. she says "reports say andy puzder is tired and may withdraw his u.s. dol nomination. if he can't stand the heat, he...